Friday, January 29, 2010

Carimanola's Recipe for MamaSita

This recipe is for Dave (aka: MamaSita). Carimanola's are fried Yucca wrapped around a savory filling. A favorite carnival food in Panama. You might also be lucky enough to find them as appetizers or breakfast food at local restaurants.

6 comments:

Gidday Ken, The above recipe is very similar to Piroshki's......... a Russian/Polish dish.Just type piroshki into your Google search bar and it'll come up with a multitude of sites, and recipes for them. Nice take on it though, using the 'yucca'.

Oh, man......this brings me back "home" in Panama. I haven't had Carimanolas for at least 35 years. Gotta get Frank to get on to this one. So, they're traditional for Carnival in Panama (just before lent begins) but we ate them for lunch at least once per week in high school. Next comes the mango pie, patacones, and ceviche! Thanks, Ken.

Here in the Philippines "Yucca" is "CAMOTENG KAHOY". We cook it with coconut milk and sugar. It's good for DESSERTS. I will try the recipe above :> We also make Yucca as "Nilukay" its a gelatinous cook with coconut milk also. Try it your surely love it :> We also put Yucca in our "Ginataan" another kind of Desserts made of "Yucca" aka "Camoteng Kahoy"

Hi. The carimanola is made with cassava, also known as yuca, the same plant from which tapioca is made. Yuca is a woody tuberous shrub of the spurge family while the differently-spelled yucca is a fruit-bearing shrub of the asparagus family. Thanks for cool blog. :)

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